62 " EE 'I Into tllliet" tI by J. P. Van Winkle ../x President Stitzel-Weller (Old Fitzgerald) Distillery Louisville Kentucky Established 1849 ...> i.. .. Apparently some of you are reading these little columns because I get a basket-full of mail following each publication. Not all the letters are com- plImentary! I quote from one which calls me to task for specializing in the production and perfection of one old-fashioned Kentucky Sour Mash Bourbon throughout my 61 active years. "A specialist," my correspond- ent twits me, "is a gentleman who knows very much about very little, and continues to learn more and more about less and less until eventually he knows practically everything about almost rl'othing at all!" In reply, I asked my friend to critically sample my specialty, and if he were a man who savored his bourbon in modest helpings, to tell me if he still held the same low regard for specialists of my ilk. "I accepted your challenge," he now writes. "My first cold toddy, made with OLD FITZGERALD, brought a quiz- zicallift to the eyebrow; the second a fleeting grin; a third, the beam- ing smile of a man convinced. "Half-way through my second purchase, I now request that you soak my original letter in your delectable speciality, and cremate it with fitting ceremony." Granted, ours is a narrow field. We have purposely kept it so. We are sa tisfied to be, not a Jack of all grades, but a Master of One. As such, we find our OLD FITZ- GERALD steadily increasing in favor among a distinguished group of discriminating gentlemen who have made it the final choice of their mature tastes. With my letter-writing friend, we welcome you to this inner circle of business executives who have discovered for themselves the satis- fying character of OLD FITZGERALD, and find it good business to share, in moderation, with associates and friends. Bonded 100 Proof Original Sour Mash Kentucky Stra ght Bourbon (Advertisement) LeTTeR FROM PARIS JUNE 22 T HIS is the end of the 1955 Grande Saison passed in a mix- ture of soft sunshine and chilly storms amid a climate of French pros- perity, discernible in Parisians' being able to afford their own high prices. There have been elegant dinners, soirées, and entertainments, and the elaborate weddings proper to this annual high so- cial season. On the Paris Bourse, the overbid stock market took a natural slump, but the French class that has money seems to have a lot of it, and to be spending it. France's Armee de l' Air and air- plane industry enjoyed the luxury of a great satisfaction this week, just ten years after they started with nothing, at the end of the war-their impressive participation, along with nine other nations, including the United States and England, in their own XXIe Salon International de l' Aéronautique at Le Bourget Airfield. Last Saturday and Sunday, a weekend crowd of half a millIon saw France's leading trio among its many new planes-the jet bolide called the Trident; the jet trans- port called the Caravelle, capable of carrying nearly a hundred passengers at a speed of close to five hundred miles an hour; and a helicopter nicely named the Alouette, or lark, which has risen higher in the air than any other of its genus. Luxury hotels are so crowded with tour- ists, mostly Germans and Americans, come to see the June goings on, that families are sleeping three to a room. Among the myriad attractions was the reopening of Florence's, the famous Montmartre champagne night club; the Grand Palais international horse show; racing at five tracks; Bois de Boulogne polo; Basque pelota; and a rose growers' competition at Bagatelle, won by an American rose fancier. The suburban Casino d'Enghien offered, along with its gambling tåbles, Verdi's "Le Bal Masque," with La Scala singers, includ- ing T agliavini. At a televised concert of sacred music at the Sainte-Chapelle, with floodlighting on the thirteenth- century stained-glass windows, an American Negro troupe assembled and led by that folk-song artIst from the Left Bank, Gordon Heath, sang spiritu- als. The Brazilian composer Heitor Villa- Lobos, increasingly popular here, directed the Orchestre National in a program of hIS own works, among them a first performance of his new piano H r:" concerto. In a welter of art shows, there have been such rare Items as an exhibi- tion of Hiroshige prints and drawings an exhibition of seventy Rembrandt drawings at the Louvre, and the Galerie Louis Carré's highly appreciated show of twenty-seven paintings, dated from 1 913 through last year, by the seventy- nine-year-old Jacques Villon, still semi- Cubist, still as gifted in his belated fame as he was before the First World War and even be- fore the Second, when no one paid any attention to him. The Grande Saison ends this week in the Grande Semaine and the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp, run as al- ways on the last Sunday of June, the most fashionable sporting Sabbatical race of the year. It should be added that, on top of everything else going on in Paris, the city itself is unfortunately being im- proved, so that automobiles can have an easier time. The Boulevard Raspail's fine cen tral allée of trees is beinp" de- forested to make a shade less, ugly s gle- track traffic artery. The magnIficent chestnuts by the Place de l' Alma are gone, victims of a new riverside traffic tunnel under the square, which looks as though a bomb had hit it. The Avenue de l'Opéra's sidewalks are being sliced away a metre and a half on each side-or about ten feet in all-so that cars may have more room and pedes- trians may walk all over each other. Now the energetic Prefect of Police, André Dubois, who at least made Paris autømobiles silent by forbidding horn tooting, whIch everyone said would be impossible, has a plan for garaging them underground, which sounds all too believable The Munici- pal Council is about to ask for bids for his urbanisme-souterrain project of building a three-story parking garage for eighteen hundred and thirty cars under the Tuileries gardens; eIght oth- ers at various points, including the Champs-Elysées; and a five-story ga- rage for six hundred cars beneath the Square Louvois, practically in the cellar of the Bibliothèque Nationale. Alto- gether, these would shelter an estimated eleven thousand cars. The Municipal Council also intends to build thirty- eight hundred small Paris apartments for families of three, or shelter for about eleven thousand four hundred citizens. It is nice to see that in the modern hous- ing struggle here between people and